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Gratitude and Recovery After Outdoor Trauma

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  • Jan 8, 2021 at 9:00 am #3692704
    Backpacking Light
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    @backpackinglight

    Locale: Rocky Mountains

    BPL author Rex Sanders meditates on gratitude and 2020 as he recovers from a traumatic brain injury during the time of COVID and wildfires.

    • Gratitude and Recovery After Outdoor Trauma
    Jan 8, 2021 at 6:41 pm #3692815
    d k
    BPL Member

    @dkramalc

    Wow, Rex –  I had no idea.  I’m so sorry you went through all that, but very relieved to hear that the outcome has been so good!  Thanks for writing this.

    Somewhat coincidentally, I just this morning finished reading “Angels in the Wilderness” by Amy Racina…someone who had horrific injuries in a fall while hiking solo in the remote Sierra.  She writes a LOT about her gratitude and appreciation of everyday things (maybe even too much, but I can certainly understand given her experience).

    Jan 10, 2021 at 5:07 am #3693052
    Iago Vazquez
    BPL Member

    @iago

    Locale: Boston & Galicia, Spain

    Wow, sorry to hear, Rex. Glad to hear that recovery seems to be going in the right track!

    Gratitude… Life long mindset. As always, I am grateful for my love and health. As Rex, I am appreciative of my luck in still being able to get outdoors, albeit with some restrictions and limitations. And finally, I am appreciative of my employer’s modified schedule since this summer, which has made life in Covid times much more manegeable when compared to the spring working conditions and expectations.

    Jan 10, 2021 at 6:01 am #3693055
    David Thomas
    BPL Member

    @davidinkenai

    Locale: North Woods. Far North.

    Rex; So sorry you went through that.  I’m glad you’re on the mend.

    Yeah, Poison Oak is never dealt with as quickly as the dermologists suggest it will be.  Score more predisone and taper it more slowly than they recommend.  However good you think the pills or ointment are, it’s the shot in the butt that really works wonders!

    So BPL writers can continue in their roles, despite brain damage?  Is this news?

    Jan 10, 2021 at 9:00 am #3693074
    Paul Wagner
    BPL Member

    @balzaccom

    Locale: Wine Country

    Sorry to hear about your accident.  I had a couple of less serious health encounters in 2020 as well, and it seems to have taken longer than usual for me to recover–which may be a result of my advancing age.  Something to consider!

    Jan 10, 2021 at 12:25 pm #3693106
    Lennox N
    BPL Member

    @blue-grendelgmail-com

    Cool to see the local (to me) sign from El Arroyo. They have posted interesting, thoughtful and humorous things for years. Sorry to hear about your accident Rex. I wish you a continued and speedy recovery.

    Jan 10, 2021 at 12:47 pm #3693116
    Kattt
    BPL Member

    @kattt

    Thanks for writing this. Lots of reasons to be thankful indeed. Chris’s son had an accident in September than left him without oxygen for over 20 minutes and he suffered global anoxic brain damage. Last month he woke from a vegetative state; we hope he will be able to walk or see again but we don’t know. Nothing should ever be taken for granted.

    Jan 10, 2021 at 12:53 pm #3693121
    Stephen Seeber
    BPL Member

    @crashedagain

    Wow Rex.  Who knew?  This year, regretfully, I left my mountain bike in the garage.  I think hiking has become my safest activity (not withstanding my slide, on my back, head first, down a portion of the Trough on Long’s Peak this summer).  Speedy recovery and have a much safer 2021.

    Jan 10, 2021 at 3:56 pm #3693151
    andrew mitchell
    BPL Member

    @brocc0

    I am a retired ER doctor.

    Cortisone pills work as well as shots- just need to be taken in high doses 4 times a day for 10 days.

    Short term memory needs to be recorded to be remembered.

    Maybe your migraine triggered the accident.

    Unconscious rage is a common cause of chronic back aches, neck aches, headaches, and stomach aches.

    I was in a head on collision several years ago and saved by seat belt and airbag.

    Gratitude is one of the best causes of happiness.

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